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Minister from time to time, and will have power to hold inquiries. Power is conferred on the Minister to require the various authorities to submit to him details of such work as involves the closing of streets. Licensing authorities are empowered to define the routes which may be regularly used by omnibuses, to require certain conditions to be carried out in the construction or equipment of omnibuses, and to insist upon both a minimum and a maximum in the number of omnibuses which may ply upon any route. As we have said elsewhere, we welcome this as a step in the right direction, but we hope that ultimately the supreme traffic authority will have something very much larger than mere advisory powers. In the last resort traffic problems cannot be considered apart from the planning of streets. No amount of organization of the actual traffic itself will avail us very much if the present and growing volume of vehicles has to be sent through narrow channels.
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